Having an adequate season of focusing on and developing an interest (L)

Helping build, remodel, clean, or serve food at a homeless shelter, "wheels on meals," orphanage

Studying and cooking (and eating) healthy dishes

4-H, Scouts, Civil Air Patrol meetings

Making/building/designing crafts of any type

Selling your work at a bazaar (or doing a traditional Lemonade Stand) including setting up the booth and

handling and recording sales

Taking classes at a fabric or craft shop

Touring museums or visiting historical sites

Creating a school name and logos for your homeschool, and making your own I.D. or A.S.B. cards for each child, coming up with "school colors", or making T-shirts or aprons with your school name and logos on them

(Click on the ASB card to the left to go to a web page on OURS!)

(Click on the U.S. Map to the right to go to a blank check-off sheet to help you learn these.)

Watching a movie or play with historical, life-changing,

or aesthetic value (P)

Studying overviews of the major religions of the world (P)

Tutoring or reading to young children

Being involved in a play, concert or recital in any capacity: acting, stage hand, making costumes, directing, choreographing, set building, being an extra or in the chorus, etc.

(Sharnessa used to do this growing up and went on to be one of two singers/dancers in a Christian pop band and was one of the two choreographers for the group!

Click on the CD cover to the right to read about it!)

Attending concerts and performances

Reading a book to a younger child

Making up a 7-aspect health plan for yourself (P)

Take Lessons: instrument, gymnastics, dance, voice, choir, skating, band, symphony, golf, or any sport

Write an essay or make up a web page (which is just an essay that you can put onto the Internet) with all of your interests, roles in life, hobbies, talents, and jobs

(Click on the picture of me to the left to go to MY page on this!  It will give you a good idea for how to organize such a page!)

Make up a "This is Me" page of yourself (Kids AND parents can do this! 

Click on the pencil to the left to go to the master for such a page!)

Studying the stars (astronomy, not astrology)

Visiting a nursing home, shut-in or hospital

Leading a family meeting (P)

Visiting or performing for sick children at a hospital

Going through difficult situations with parental guidance

and the Holy Spirit

Watching the process of a house being constructed

over a period of several weeks, or better yet...

Helping remodel or build on to the house

(Click on the clipboard to the left to go to a skills form for this.)

Attending Master Gardeners meetings 

Interviewing people of various occupations and interests (P)

Learning how to sew      Reading "real books"

Collecting food for a food barrel

Gleaning food for the poor from grocery stores

Working at a nursing home: feeding patients

Going on a mission outreach trip

Helping to deliver food, clothing, blankets to the needy

Writing a letter to the editor about something

you are concerned about

Attending workshops and seminars of special personal interest

Making a High School Memory Book (P)

Being part of a homeschool choir

Organizing a closet, room, shelves  (P)

Building a dog or cat house

Finding out the core conflicts and outcomes of the

major wars of the U.S. (P)

Pick berries and store (can, freeze), preserve (jams and jellies) or prepare appropriately (dry, fresh)

Kids creating and presenting (even invitations and programs?)

their own Nativity Scene play

Making up your own words to children's songs

(Click on the mother-and-child to the right to go to our

"Love Lullabyes" area ~ with all the songs *I* made up!)

Participating in a running, jogging, swimming

or bicycle marathon

Learning oil, watercolor, or tole painting

Making bird feeders / Watching & learning about birds

Attending a Creation Science seminar

Evaluating the wholesomeness of a song or movie (P)

Listening to a special speaker at church

Planting and growing seeds, indoors or outdoors

Computer: learning computer programs, operations & terms (P)

Owning and/or caring for a horse

Participating in a Toastmasters (Speech) Meeting or Speechcrafters Class

Attending a Basic Life Principles (or any Christian) seminar

Browsing an art show  at a library, museum or park

Learning the various cooking terms (P)

Helping a neighbor or relative take care

of their younger children

Finding out the meaning of your name and a Bible verse

to go with it (P)

Doing a creative, in-depth, or topical Bible Study (P)

Creating a Family Newsletter, not just at Christmas,

but anytime ~ or regularly ~ through the year

Researching the Internet for a topic of (valuable and moral) interest

Calculating the costs and care of getting a pet(P)

Visiting (and really experiencing) a science center

Helping answer phone lines at a Christian radio or

television telethon

Interviewing a pastor, elder, or deacon on their

denomination’s beliefs (P)

Interviewing someone who is waiting on God's timing

for their future spouse

(Click on the heart to the left to go to a "Purity Interview"

that you can use to do this!)

Having a tea party with Mom, friends, or dolls

Doing your own unique, personal Homeschool Graduation!

(Click on the graduation cap to the right to read about Tory's!)